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Kevin Kampman is headed to Nevada from North Carolina to take over April 5 as publisher of the Elko Daily Free Press and its sister newspaper, the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho.
“I’m anxious to see Elko because I’ve never seen a mining community like that,” he is quoted in the newspaper’s announcement. “In a town like Elko, my thought is that you play a very critical role in the community in informing and leading that community.”
Kampman will replace Travis Quast, who is moving to Adams Publishing Group’s newspapers in eastern Idaho, which include the Idaho State Journal in Pocatello.
Kampman, who has a degree in education from the University of Akron and grew up in Cleveland, began a 37-year career in newspapers in the circulation department at the Columbus Dispatch.
Most recently, he was a publisher with BH Media Group in Winston-Salem, N.C., overseeing two daily papers and eight smaller newspapers, until he retired from that position in May, according to the Free Press’s story.
The Elko paper is owned by Lee Enterprises, which bought it in 2004 from Liberty Publishing. Before that, the paper was operated for almost nine decades by four generations of the Steninger family, represented in the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame.